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cars for sale
I have the following kits for sale. All are new in box.
Bowser #55874 70 ton 2 bay covered hopper ACL 88332 dark gray, NIB, $6.00 Bowser #55466, PRR K-9 Stock Car, PRR 131054, NIB, $6.00 Bowser # 55451, PRR K-11 Stock Car, PRR 130505, NIB, $6.00 Tichy #4025 ICC 103 large dome tank car. NIB, 6.00 Also, Bowser #55694,70 ton 2 bay covered hopper L&N 38372 "The Dixie Line" assembled with Kadees. $8.00 Buyer pays actual shipping. I prefer checks or money orders. No Paypal. Please contact me off line if interested. Bill McCoy Jax, FL 904-646-3485 E mail wpmccoy@... |
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Re: Freight yard
Neat shot -- and look at those clean steam locos! Is that a CB&Q 50ft
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single sheathed car in the far right background? Schuyler wrote: http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-03-22-08/y_DLW_Binghamton_turntable.jpg |
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Re: Southern Covered Hopper
Schuyler
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That looks like either a PS 4000 or an ACF clone. No HO models available. The AHM is a PS 2893, and yes the Southern did have some 2893's including ex-CofG and they ran in green letters in the mid 1970's through the 1980's. The latest Athearn 2893 model in Southern green is stenciled with a date of 1977. Into the drawer it goes... you can run it during the (hack cough) modern era op session. Tim O'Connor Well, sorry folks for putting you to all that trouble, and not communicating that I was asking about |
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Re: Wabash 65' mill gons
Richard
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Sorry, S-3 was just a typo. I meant A-3. The bolsters resemble photos I've seen of a "Barber lateral motion" style. They're definitely not A-3 bolsters. I'll send you the scan and maybe you can identify it. For all I know maybe it's one of yours! Tim On Mar 22, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote:A fine 1959 photo of Wabash #12046 shows what looks like 70 tonTim, you're confused (and confusing) here. The ASF ride control trucks |
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Freight yard
Schuyler Larrabee
http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-03-22-08/y_DLW_Binghamton_turntable.jpg
In the background and fuzzy, but kinda interesting. SGL La vita e breve, mangiate prima il dolce! |
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Southern Flat/Gon's ?
fiddlertrain
Hi
Got to surfing the old Steam Era freightcars web scite the other night and found the Smokey Mountain article about a new kit that at that time being released from Smoky Mt. It was a flat car that looked like it had been converted to a gon by extending the sides. It was unusual in that it had a walkway through the ends and it was lettered both on the gondola sidea and the older flat car portion also. Could anyone tell me what its purpose was? I took an old flat car and duplicated it from the pictures. Thanks in advance fiddler |
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Re: ATSF see through box car
Steve SANDIFER
This car was featured in a movie that the ATSF produced on proper car handling. It showed a crewman and his family who just purchased their first TV. It arrived in pieces. The problem was traced back to rough handling by rail crews.
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______________ J. Stephen (Steve) Sandifer mailto:steve.sandifer@... Home: 12027 Mulholland Drive, Meadows Place, TX 77477, 281-568-9918 Office: Southwest Central Church of Christ, 4011 W. Bellfort, Houston, TX 77025, 713-667-9417 ----- Original Message -----
From: up4024 To: STMFC@... Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 9:28 AM Subject: [STMFC] Re: ATSF see through box car It seems to me that in my youth I got a photo of similar car built by the Union Pacific. I can try to find it if anyone is interested.... Steve Kay --- In STMFC@..., "Michael Bishop" <goldrod_1@...> wrote: > > After WWII the Santa Fe had a boxcar made with Plexiglas sides. The car > was used to show how rough handling of the car affected the load. How > long did this car last and was it ever rebuilt with steel sides? Thanks > for any help. > > Michael > |
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Re: Chili's Restaurant Commercial
Miles C
It looks like older Union and Southern Pacific MOW equipment, like the SP
chop-top 1958cuft covered hoppers converted to ballast , and the UP green water car, with some flats. I may be incorrect, but it sure looks like it. |
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Re: ATSF see through box car
Richard Hendrickson
On Mar 21, 2008, at 10:32 PM, Michael Bishop wrote:
After WWII the Santa Fe had a boxcar made with Plexiglas sides. The carThis car , numbered ATSF 10000, was converted in 1953 from Bx-63 class AAR 40' box car ATSF 35579 and had removable plywood sides to protect the clear panels when in transit. It remained in use as a claim prevention demonstration car until ca. 1965. Richard Hendrickson |
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Re: Santa Fe Ship and Travel cars with Train Names...
Richard Hendrickson
On Mar 22, 2008, at 7:30 AM, up4024 wrote:
Last week I purchased a set of Microscale Decals-- # 87-506, which isTrue on the earlier map/slogan stenciling schemes, but not on the post-1947 "Ship and Travel..." schemes with later style slogans. The post-1947 slogans were the same size for both 40' and 50' cars. Also, the decal placement sheet shows a 40' plug doorThe Santa Fe owned only two classes of 40' RBs with plug doors and DF loaders, classes Rr-62 and Rr-63. There were only fifteen Rr-62s, and they were rebuilt in 1958 from 1952 Bx-63 class box cars specifically to serve Campbell Soup. Aside from the doors, they were outwardly standard postwar AAR steel box cars with early style Improved Dreadnaught ends and diagonal panel roofs, so it might be possible to kit-bash one from a Branchline box car kit, but modeling the doors and the side sheathing on either side of the doors (which had diagonal rivet courses) wouldn't be easy. There were thirty Rr-63s, also rebuilt in 1958 for Campbell Soup service, and they were originally Bx-11 class single sheathed cars rebuilt ca. 1948 with raised height (accomplished by adding panels at the top of the ends), new steel sides and side framing, and rectangular panel roofs. They would be even harder to kit-bash, though I suppose almost anything is possible. What is known about the correlation of car numbers to slogan assignments is in my Santa Fe Freight Car Paint and Lettering book, published by the Santa Fe RR Historical and Modeling Society. However, information about post-WW-II cars is fragmentary, so for the Rr-62 and Rr-63 classes, you have to depend on photographic evidence, which I can provide if you really decide to try and model those cars. Richard Hendrickson |
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Re: Wabash 65' mill gons
Richard Hendrickson
On Mar 22, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote:
A fine 1959 photo of Wabash #12046 shows what looks like 70 tonTim, you're confused (and confusing) here. The ASF ride control trucks were A-3s, not S-3s. Barber Stabilized trucks used "S" designations, as in "S-2A." And ASF A-3s didn't have Barber "ride control" bolsters, since they had their own spring-loaded wedge snubbers built in. In any case, the trucks you're citing on WAB 12046 must have been replacements, as all the builder's photos show spring-plankless self-aligning AAR trucks; in fact, ASF A-3 trucks did not become commercially available until 1944. Richard Hendrickson |
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Re: Wabash 65' mill gons
Brian J Carlson <brian@...>
Thanks Tim and Richard. I usually expect to see 3 springs for 70-ton trucks
but clearly that isn't always the case. I'd like to add brake shoes to the Athearn trucks. I have the Kadee parts. I'll see if any fit. Brian J Carlson P.E. Cheektowaga NY |
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Re: Southern Covered Hopper
Schuyler Larrabee
I asked about Southern Covered Hoppers
Well, sorry folks for putting you to all that trouble, and not communicating that I was asking about a three bay car, not two. I meant one like this: http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/sout/sou6826akg.jpg But from the discussion I gather that this style of paint didn't appear until ~1960? If that's the case, well . . . rats! One of my better weathering jobs looks a lot like that photo, albeit on a Robin's Rails version of the venerable AHM kit. But the Club's target date is 1955. So it has to go in the drawer. SGL |
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Re: Southern Covered Hopper
#1475 that is... I should give up now.
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At 3/22/2008 07:21 PM Saturday, you wrote:
My bad again... I see Kadee did CofG #1479... don't know |
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Re: Southern Covered Hopper
My bad again... I see Kadee did CofG #1479... don't know
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the series. At 3/22/2008 07:18 PM Saturday, you wrote:
Ben, my bad. |
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Re: Southern Covered Hopper
Ben, my bad.
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I looked it up -- the 95439,95655 are ex-CofG cars. Kadee has not done either the CofG or the Southern cars, but from your roster notes it appears that they could... I wonder why they haven't? (CofG series was 1000-1199) Tim O'Connor At 3/22/2008 07:10 PM Saturday, you wrote:
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Re: Southern Covered Hopper
benjaminfrank_hom <b.hom@...>
Tim O'Connor wrote:
"Can you elaborate? I have jpeg's of SOU 95439, 95655 and I can't see any obvious difference from Kadee's hatch spacing." This looks like the proof behind John's statement that the SOU 280178- 280277 and 319234-319293 series had the later hatch arrangement. These must be later renumberings. Anyone have the original number series? Ben Hom |
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Re: Wabash 65' mill gons
Brian J Carlson <brian@...>
I originally asked about one of these cars last month. I picked one up at a
show. I want to finish off the detailing. Athearn numbered their cars 12017 and 12033, which fall in the 12000 - 12049 group built in 12-1941 by Decatur shop. What trucks were used on these cars? The models appear to come with the Standard Athearn 50-ton truck (self aligning spring plankless). I would have expected a 70 ton truck with a 3 visible springs either with or without spring planks. If the model should have a 70 ton solid bearing trucks, what options are there in HO? I am not finding any options in the Walthers Catalog or my parts box. Brian J Carlson P.E. Cheektowaga NY |
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Re: Wabash 65' mill gons
Richard Hendrickson
On Mar 22, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Brian J Carlson wrote:
I originally asked about one of these cars last month. I picked one upBrian, the prototype cars had 70 ton AAR self aligning spring plankless trucks with five-spring clusters (two springs visible). The Athearn truck is actually a pretty good representation of them; no doubt it was intended to represent a 50 ton truck, but the journal boxes are somewhat oversize, as on most HO scale trucks. I just got one of the models myself and I intend to leave the Athearn trucks on it (though with Code 88 wheels, of course). Richard Hendrickson |
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Re: Wabash 65' mill gons
A fine 1959 photo of Wabash #12046 shows what looks like 70 ton
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ASF S-3 truck sideframes, with 2 springs in the front, and Barber "ride control" bolsters. These trucks have no spring plank. No HO scale model is an exact match. Tim O'Connor At 3/22/2008 07:06 PM Saturday, you wrote:
I originally asked about one of these cars last month. I picked one up at a |
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